GDT 8/13/25 Philadelphia Phillies (Sánchez, C) @ Cincinnati Reds (Greene, H)

[LoneStarPhan]

A two out walk in the bottom of the fourth ends up scoring to give the Reds a 1-0 lead after four innings.

[Patchmk88]

This offense is lost right now.

[owaistabish]

Awful - their hitting can be so inconsistent.

[LoneStarPhan]

Harper swings at ball four on a full count to end the sixth, leaving Schwarber (double, wild pitch) on third.

Neither side is doing much offensively, but the Reds have the one run so far.

[zambonir]

Whelp, some defensive follies put an end to this one.

[EastFallowfield]

Gee, ya miss most of the game and come here for all the details and the bot is on vacation

[zambonir]

Lucky you

[zambonir]

Well, that Texas road trip did seem a little too good to be true.

[HopeSpringsEternal]

and come here for all the details and the bot is on vacation

Bot’s no dummy; he’s just hanging around to catch the Train concert.

[zambonir]

They figured out a way to make a Train concert good (if you're a Philliies fan)

[EastFallowfield]

Well, that Texas road trip did seem a little too good to be true.

The phans elsewhere who griped about not getting enough sweeps were pretty dismissive of the 'winning series' stat. If the Phils had won the Texas series 2-1 and this one 2-1 there'd be griping, but not anywhere near as much griping as there will be about going 4-2 on this trip so far in this 3-0, 1-2 fashion.

[LoneStarPhan]

Fielding failed tonight. We have Marsh overrunning a ball and having to go back to pick it up. Might have had a play at the plate if he fields it cleanly. Possible savings, three runs. Then the easy grounder to Stott who was ready to throw, but nobody was at first. Possible savings, four runs. Sure, they had the little league home run and the grand slam, but both came after a potential inning ending missed opportunity.

Hope they shake this off and go to (now safe) DC and win 3 of the 4.

[HopeSpringsEternal]

Kind of wonder if Romano gets DFA-ed when Alvarado comes back. At least Ross can provide multiple innings in a mop up role.

[VoteForKalas]

Still very hard to win games when you score 0 runs

This offense is such a Jeckyl and Hyde show

[zambonir]

I would have taken a 3-3 road trip regardless. But would like to take three in DC.

Do we really think the other teams score runs more consistently than the Phillies do, or is that just baseball? We've put a fair amount of stock in RD this year matching the record, and that stat doesn't care if you score 10 runs in one game and zero in another or five in two games. We're obviously not a top offense (9th in runs, 8th in OPS) but only the Brewers are better than us in ERA against among the teams with more wins. Somehow they also have 30 comeback wins even though it feels like every early lead is impossible to overcome.

It's been a good month. Beat the Nets and then we've got some real tests coming (Seattle, Mets and Brewers away).

I feel like Romano's an obvious DFA option merely because he still make enough money prorated to not necessarily get claimed. But I also doubt the Phillies want him to opt for free agency. September 1 is still kind of far away though.

[RolenRules]

It is really disappointing because Romano was signed to have a major role in our bullpen. His ineffectiveness plus Alvarado's suspension forced DD to trade for Duran. Hopefully Duran will continue to be outstanding and rev up the Phans with his intro as well as his 103 mph fastball. However, the trade cost us two prospects that we might miss in a few years.

Both Romano and Kepler were underwhelming signings by DD and the FO.

[zambonir]

I think Duran would have been a necessary add regardless. I guess we'll never know for sure since Alvarado was suspended too, but Duran's clearly a much bigger piece of the puzzle than Robertson, as well as a guy we have for two more seasons.

I don't even miss Ben Brown.

Of course it's also easy now to say they should have kept Estevez but Hoffman seemed like the better bet at the time. Imagine if they'd traded for Devon Williams!

[Philsmania]

I guess you could call these last two games buzzkill. From five game win streak to 14-1 combined whopping. Mets creep back to within four games.

[VoteForKalas]

Our offense is very dependent on really one guy, Schwarber, and to a lesser extent, Harper, to be effective. If Schwarber is off, we struggle to score runs. If Harper is off, we may score, but it will likely be limited. If both are off, the offense is dead in the water.

Manufacturing runs is challenging for this offense and they show little ability in adapting their approach to how they are being pitched. If we do not score early and build a lead, we likely will lose despite our excellent pitching.

[EastFallowfield]

You never know, the Mets might blow a 6 run lead and give up 11 unanswered runs!